Kevin Boone writes about the Yamaha DX7, which changed everything when it turned up in the mid-1980s: "the 'Electric Piano 1' preset alone appeared in over 60% of album releases of 1986." It was ...

The Reface DX (centre) is a revamped version of the popular DX7 keyboard from the 80s. Yamaha Yamaha has given some of its vintage synth keyboards a modern lick of paint, downsizing four classic ...

It’s said that, prior to recording his seminal Purple Rain album in 1983, he purchased a Yamaha DX7, and now this very same synth is up for auction. The synth is currently owned by Shane T Keller, a ...

Being one of the cheapest MIDI-compatible keyboards available, the DX7 became indispensable. The most lavish recording suites were naked without it.

Tech Synths "To say its arrival was earth-shaking would be no exaggeration": why, 40 years on, the Yamaha DX7 was the most important release in synth history, even though it did "make your head ...

The Yamaha DX7 leads off the '80s; it used FM synthesis rather than the typical approach of subtractive synthesis, resulting in bell-like tones and the snappy, percussive bass in songs like Mr ...

Giorgio Moroder is one of many famous musicians who used standard keyboard presets in their songs. Specifically, he used a Yamaha DX7 keyboard for the hit Berlin song “Take My Breath Away”.

Yamaha’s reface collection is a set of keyboards designed to give you legendary sounds from the company’s history, squeezed into tiny portable packages. The DX is all black and moody, drawing ...

With the SMK-37 Pro, M-VAVE offers an affordable MIDI keyboard that impresses with its many functions. We have tried it out.